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LAW 405

Privacy and Technology in Law and Practice

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[ Academia ] Education Law: General

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[ Academia ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Technology : Privacy law is evolving as changes in technology result in changes to some human behaviors and expectations. IP lawyers, particularly those interested in media and cyberlaw, will want to be familiar with the way current law balances the values of free speech and individual privacy. Privacy concerns are triggered in many other practice areas, too, such as health, education and employment.

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Description:

In this lecture course, students will identify instances in which new technologies have changed the likelihood that information about individuals will be created, collected, stored, analyzed, and disclosed to both private entities and to governments. We will look at the internet, mobile platforms and drones, among other developments. The class will identify both privacy defeating and privacy enhancing technologies, and consider how legal regimes and policy choices as well as technological design can mitigate or highten the risk of unwanted information disclosure. Assignments will ask for both descriptive and normative analysis. Students will examine the interrelationship between privacy, security, free speech, innovation and other public goods and be asked to debate particular policy outcomes in light of competing values about information privacy with regard to both the public and private sector. We will cover issues such as Do-Not-Track and online advertising, data security breaches, consumer notice, privacy by design, corporate best practices, Federal Trade Commission enforcement, workplace monitoring, and law enforcement and national security access.

Course Style: A Substantive/ Perspective course looks at law from an external or non-traditional standpoint.